Vladimir Putin announces that Moscow “will analyze” Volodymyr Zelensky's proposal to suspend the strikes against civil infrastructure
While the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, proposed to extend the truce on thirty days relating to the strikes of drones and missiles against civil infrastructure, Vladimir Putin assured that Russia was going “Analyze” This offer. “All this deserves to be studied carefully. Perhaps bilaterally, following dialogues. We don't exclude that. We will therefore analyze all this and make appropriate decisions ”Russian president told the press.
“We have a positive attitude towards any peace initiative, we have always said it,” assured Mr. Putin, saying to hope that “The representatives of the kyiv regime will do the same”.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said that Mr. Putin was talking about possible bilateral consultations with Ukraine, which would be a first since the spring of 2022 and peace talks failed at the start of the invasion.
At the same time, he accused kyiv of hiding military targets behind civil infrastructure, especially in Odessa, where Russian forces launched an attack on an agricultural business a few days ago.
Vladimir Putin, who said he had “No doubt” On the victory of Russia, also accused, without proving it, the kyiv of Corruption regime, believing that it was not fighting “For the interests of the people” Ukrainian but to preserve “Their capital, which they stole from the Ukrainian people and swept abroad”.
Source: Lemonde